Author To Probe His Cherokee Ancestors at Freedom Center Lecture
Leading anthropologist Kenneth B.Tankersley will share his genealogy in a lecture entitled “The Search for My Cherokee Ancestors” on April 11 at 2:00pm at the National Underground Railroad Freedom Center.
Tankersley, with an Indiana Jones-like resume, is an expert on the earliest inhabitants of North America dating back to the Ice Age. A member of the Department of Art and Archaeology at Augustana College in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, and a research associate of the Cleveland Museum of Natural History, Tankersley’s research has been featured on National Geographic Explorer, the Discovery Channel, All Things Considered, and Nova. He lives in Kentucky.
His presentation, which is free and open to the public, will be given in the Discovery Room on the 3rd floor of the Freedom Center Reservations can be made by calling 513 333 7707 and leaving your name and phone number. The lecture is being provided by the Family Search Center of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints.
Copies of Dr Tankersley book “In Search of the Ice Age Americans” will be available for purchase.
Dr. Tankersley,
I took American Indians from you at NKU.
You have left there and I am trying to get your e-mail address.
Could you plese e-mail me at ptremain@lburg.k12.in.us
I would like to get some info. about going out to Pine Ridge this summer.
Thanks,
Paul E. Tremain, Sr.